Description
Zscaler, a leading company in accelerating digital transformation, is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer - Automation to join its team in Mohali. This hybrid role reports to the Director, Software Development Engineering in the Engineering department.
Role Expectations As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will bridge software design engineering and test engineering to design, develop, and deploy wide-reaching tools and frameworks that automatically verify product quality at scale. Your responsibilities include:
- Owning end-to-end System Integration Testing (SIT) and quality outcomes for key platform areas, including UI, APIs, services, and data workflows
- Designing and delivering effective, automatable test plans with strong coverage for functional, regression, and system integration scenarios
- Building and maintaining UI and API automation using modern frameworks to ensure stability, maintainability, and fast feedback
- Validating large-scale systems, including REST APIs, backend services, distributed workflows, and microservices
Who You Are To succeed in this role, you should:
- Thrive in ambiguity and be comfortable building the path as you walk it
- Act like an owner, with a passion for the mission that fuels your bias for action
- Be a problem-solver, laser-focused on finding solutions to hard problems
- Be a high-trust collaborator, ambitious for the team, not just yourself
- Have a true growth mindset and be obsessed with your own development
Minimum Qualifications
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions
- Advanced proficiency in automation testing using Python (pytest/unittest), JavaScript, or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with UI automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
- Deep experience testing distributed systems, microservices, and scalable cloud-native multi-tenant architectures in AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
- Solid understanding of CI/CD integration, Linux troubleshooting, and containerized environments, including Docker and Kubernetes
- Technical knowledge of L2/L3 networking concepts, including routing protocols, VPN, IPSec, and WAN architecture
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven experience designing scalable test frameworks covering architecture, patterns, reporting, stability, and parallelization
- Proficiency with Git, test management tools like TestRail, and issue tracking systems such as Jira
- Hands-on experience with AI agent prompting and usage for productivity, test design, and automation support
Benefits Zscaler offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of its employees and their families, including various health plans, time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, in-office perks, and more.